She had the Audacity

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8. They're both gonna be on our money someday. Or they should be.

Women of history and honor and legend. How are we non-blacks supposed to come to understand what the black experience has been?

One of the basics of recovery, seems to me, is first to admit you have a problem. The denial we see - manifested in the white population's total misunderstanding of what blacks have gone through since the earliest days on this continent. It's just really shameful. Heck, there's denial all over the landscape on that proverbial other side of the aisle. Look at the science and climate change deniers. Look at the deniers of any wrongdoing in the Iraq War, and the effort to excuse and justify it. Notice - they're STILL trying to justify it, more than a decade later. Even with the shreds they have left to cling to - "I think the world is safer with Saddam gone" yeah, uh-huh. That's all they've got, and even that pretense is debatable. I'm not a total expert on all things Middle East but it seems to me Saddam kept the Iranians busy. He was no angel, certainly. But Iran seemed a lot more preoccupied with the war on its western border when he was in power, fighting them, depleting their economy, costing them many lives, and just generally making their lives miserable. Things, while far from optimum, were at least confined to a relatively small section of the Middle East.

Now, SHEESH the whole area is aflame.